1. Dates Submission Cost and Venue.
Held at Bournemouth South West Dance (Attached to The Bournemouth Pavilion) on Saturday August 29th. The absolute final deadlines are as dictated on FilmFreeway. Category winners are announced at the festival.
£30 per category entry.
2. Competition.
Each submission must be entered separately. Entries will be assessed and successful submissions will enter the festival competition.
The winner of each category each month will be shown on the Hard Work Films Festival page link.
Each winner will then go on to the semi-final.
5 winners of each category will then go on to the final and winners will be anounced in Bournemouth, at the event, on the 29th August.
If your film is selected we reserve the right to show your film at a date and time of our choosing.
3. Formats.
Screenplays must be submitted as a digital .PDF via FilmFreeway.
4. Selection
The final award winning entries will be selected by a festival jury. Award winners will be notified within 28 days of the event in Bournemouth.
5. Publicity
We reserve the right to use extracts from submissions for festival publicity and marketing purposes. Press kits are not required, but are useful, so please feel free to send these with your submissions.
6. Categories
Best Feature Film
Best Short Film
Best Music
Best Director (feature)
Best Director (short) Best Actor (feature)
Best Actor (short)
Best Actress (feature)
Best Actress (short)
Best Screenplay (feature)
Best Screenplay (short)
Rules for Participation
1. Dates Submission Cost and Venue
Held at Bournemouth South West Dance (Attached to The Bournemouth Pavilion) on Saturday August 29th. The absolute final deadlines are as dictated on FilmFreeway. Category winners are announced at the festival.
£30 per category entry.
2. Competition
Each submission must be entered separately. Entries will be assessed and successful submissions will be programmed for screening and enter the festival competition.
Failure to submit a screener copy four weeks prior to the festival will rule out eligibility for an award and may lead to the cancellation of your screening. If your film is selected we reserve the right to show your film at a date and time of our choosing.
The 5 final films will be screened on the day of the event.
3. Formats
For the selection process a digital screener must be submitted via FilmFreeway. Screenplays must be submitted as a digital .PDF via FilmFreeway.
Successful submissions that are granted a screening must submit a DCP.
4. Selection
The screening schedule will be announced after the final submission deadline. The final award winning entries will be selected by a festival jury.
5. Screenings
It is the responsibility of the entrant to ensure that films for screening are deposited with the festival organisers at least 28 days before any scheduled screening.
6. Publicity
We reserve the right to use extracts from submissions for festival publicity and marketing purposes. Press kits are not required, but are useful, so please feel free to send these with your submissions.
7. Categories
Best Feature Film
Best Short Film
Best Music
Best Director Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Screenplay
8. Awards
Hard Work Films Bournemouth Film Festival trophy and £100 per winner.
Best Feature Film
Best Short Film
Best Music
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Screenplay
9. Submission, Selection for Screening, Awards and Voting
There are 3 distinct stages. Submission, screening and awards. The administrators’ decision is final.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
By submitting to our festival, we will utilise any personal data that you submit to us as part of the details of your submission, to evaluate your submission for the purposes of the festival. We will store your data to contact you about future festivals and events that you may be interested in from either ourselves or third parties.
We will also use your data as part of our internal surveys to assess the number of submissions for the festival and where submissions came from and from what category.
You are in control of your data and should you wish to delete your data, you may request us to do this at anytime.
Asking us to delete your data before the end of the festival, will delete your submission from the festival and no refunds will be given.
To withdraw consent to use your data and delete it from our systems, please email us with your request.
Data Consent.
The only way to enter our film festival is by submission. It is not possible to enter the festival without a submission. Therefore by submitting to our festival you are giving us consent to utilise your data.
It is impossible for our festival to manage your submission and your involvement in our festival without using your data.
If you do not consent to this and would like us to delete your data entirely after the festival, please contact us. By making a submission to our festival you are giving your consent for us to use your data in the ways listed in point 12 of our rules and conditions. By making a submission to our festival you are allowing us to use your data and agreeing to abide by our festival rules, terms and conditions.
Third Parties that we may share your data with are other film festivals, competitions and/or film festival submission websites.
Freedom Of Information
Under the Freedom of Information Act all client information kept by us is available to claim. This can include personal data, any saved emails, course attendance or mail.
A request must be filed by the person in question in an email. This must include the full name and address and any details of what kinds of information would be kept (eg: if there are emails – and to who they would have been addressed) so as to assist full investigation of the claim.
We will also charge a £10 administrative fee payable by PayPal. Any further claims will subsequently be charged £10 at every instance. In the cases where data contain private information concerning other clients or staff, such instances exempt from FOI claims, we may refuse to deliver such data alternatively explaining why this would not be available.
If you are dissatisfied with our response comments must be sent to:
Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
